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STUDENTS' ARMY TRAINING CORPS 

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August 31, 1918 



University op Colorado Bulletin 

Vol. XVIII, No. 8 General Series No. 129 

Published Monthly by the Regents of 
the University of Colorado. 

Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, 
as second-class matter. 



Students' Army Training Corps 

of the 

University of Colorado 



This is a day when University education 
has been weighed in the balance and found 
necessary in a war which can be brought to a 
successful conclusion only by the training and 
discipline of our mental powers, as well as 
our physical powers, to the utmost of our 
capacity as a nation.. 

To provide a reservoir from which to draw 
an unfailing supply of men properly trained 
for officers, administrators and scientific and 
technical specialists in the various branches 
of tha service, the War Department has 
established the Students' Army Training 
Corps. This new institution of the army 
combines the advantages of a military camp 
with the broad training and influences of the 
University Campus. Students eighteen years 
of age or over who have completed the 
requisite preparatory work for entrance to 
the University and have the proper physical 
qualifications for the army may be voluntarily 
inducted into the Students' Army Training 
Corps B on October 1. They then become 
members of the United States Army with all 
the advantages as well as the responsibilities 
of a soldier. They are given uniform, sub- 
sistence, tuition, military training and equip- 
ment, and the pay of a private soldier ($30 a 
month) ; they are subject to military discipline 
twenty-four hours a day, will live and mess 
in barracks, and are subject to call at any 
time. 

. There will be no summer training camps 
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the University will be intensive and strict. 
The daily program will be arranged upon a 
military basis somewhat as follows: reveille 
6:45, mess 7:00, drill 7:30 to 9:30, classes 9:30 
. to 12:00, mess 12:00 to 1:30, classes 1:30 to 
4:30, athletics and exercise 4:30 to 5:30, re- 
treat and mess 6:00, freedom 6:30 to 7:30, 
supervised study 7:30 to 9:30, taps 10:00. The 
class work at the University will be organ- 
ized to have direct bearing on the war situ- 
ation. 

While it is clearly the desire of the Gov- 
ernment to give students as much college 
training as possible, it should be emphasized 
that the War Department makes no promise 
to keep students in college for any definite 
length of time. Indeed the latest program 
requires that practically all Class I-A men be 
in active service by June 1919, the only ex- 
ceptions to be men of unusual promise in 
scientific and technical lines. 

All men over eighteen will register with 
their local draft boards on September 12. 
Students subject to the draft whose numbers 
are called before October 1 will have to go 
into active service. On October 1 all students 
over eighteen, including Reserve Corps men, 
may be inducted into the Students' Army 
Training Corps (Collegiate Section). For 
this induction students need not return to 
their own local board, but may apply to the 
nearest board. Physical examinations will 
be conducted by the draft board for these 
men as for all other registrants. After in- 
duction, the calling of the students' draft 
number sets the time for deciding whether 
he is to be kept in the University or sent 
elsewhere. To facilitate this plan the Uni- 
versity will be operated in continuous session 
on the quarter system, the first quarter 
beginning the first of October. It is assumed 



that no men will be called before the end of 
the first quarter, and by this time their 
special capacities will determine whether they 
can best serve their country by being sent to 
an Officers' Training Camp to qualify for a 
commission, by being assigned to the ord- 
nance, quartermaster or other Staff Corps, 
by being sent immediately to a division at 
one of the camps, or by being allowed to con- 
tinue their studies until they can qualify as 
experts along technical or scientific lines. In 
other words, this is a plan by which the 
Selective Service idea can be carried out in 
practice as well as in theory. 

The latest advice we have is that members 
of the Students' Army Training Corps may 
be transferred to other branches of the serv- 
ice in the army or the navy upon the recom- 
mendation of the University authorities. 
There has as yet been no provision made for 
the transfer of men in the Naval Reserve to 
the Students' Army Training Corps but it is 
probable that some arrangement will be 
made by the Naval Department. 

Students under eighteen are not eligible 
for enlistment in the Students' Army Train- 
ing Corps, but may enroll at their own 
expense and secure all the advantages of 
military drill and discipline. 

Students who have begun their studies at 
the University, and have already been called 
into service, may, in case they have given 
exceptional promise, be returned to the Uni- 
versity. They are requested to communicate 
with their respective Deans if they so desire. 

It is important that all should realize fully 
that under this plan the University is virtually 
placed at the service of the Government, and 
will shape its policies in accordance with the 
demands that are made upon it by the War 
Department, and that these demands will 



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change as military exigencies require. It is 
for all of us a time of continual adaptation 
and readjustment. The University is making 
every effort to provide quarters and ^ess in 
suitable barracks by October 1. The time is 
very short and the emergency has arisen 
without warning, so that there will doubtless 
be a period of inconvenience during the first 
weeks of the session. If the barracks are 
not ready, there will be arrangements made 
by the University to lodge students in tempo- 
rary quarters for the first few weeks. 

Attention is called to the fact that 
the University is also cooperating with the 
War Department in the training of detach- 
ments of men who are sent here for brief 
periods for intensive instruction in technical 
lines such as Auto and Truck Driving and 
Repairing, Telegraphy, General Mechanics, 
etcetera. Men may be inducted into these 
detachments (which are now the Vocational 
Section of the Students' Army Training Corps) 
who have had at least a grammar school edu- 
cation. From these detachments, exceptional 
men who have collegiate standing may be 
transferred to the Collegiate Section of the 
Students' Army Training Corps. 

It is sufficiently evident from the above 
provisions that the Government desires that 
every young man who is eligible should enter 
the Students' Army Training Corps. Many 
students will, however, be disqualified on 
physical grounds who can be of great service 
to their country outside of the army. It is 
equally important that they should go to col- 
lege and train themselves to give to the 
Nation the full measure of their powers. 

All students who expect to enroll in the 
University of Colorade this year are asked to 
communicate with the Registrar as soon as 
possible. 





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